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Lena Horne

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Top 10 Films to Celebrate Black History Month

    In 1926 historian Carter G. Wilson began what was known as Negro History Week in an effort to make the African American story more prevalent in our culture's consciousnesses. The week evolved into an entire month-long celebration and promotion of African American history, which we recognize this mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Classic Christmas: Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas

    Over the holidays, we're looking back at some classic Christmas albums taking some track by track and just digging on others. ​There is an admission that I have to make having written all these Classic Christmas posts this year. When I think of Christmas, I don't think of carols or choirs or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    The Five Sexiest Old Actresses Who Died In 2010

    As in every year, people died in 2010. Famous people. Sexy people. Or people who were, at one time, both famous and sexy. While they may have been elderly by the time they went to join the Great Majority, it is as they were in their prime that they should be remembered. Keeping that in mind, here ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    The Day The KKK Bombed KPFT

    Yesterday morning during KPFT's biannual pledge drive, the station was paying homage to recently deceased color-barrier breaker Lena Horne by giving away copies of her biography Stormy Weather and highlighting a 40-minute interview with the black singer/actress about her relationship with whites in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga (Again!) Headed Our Way

    Hot off the wire this morning is that pop's two preeminent bionic women have penciled in Houston for dates on their upcoming tours. First up is Christina Aguilera, who will bring her tiny frame and prodigious voice to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion August 12. British diva Leona Lewis, a former ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    Project Row Houses: Classified X

    Even Lena Horne couldn’t make up for Mammy

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    CINEMATHEQUE: Latin American “Third Cinema”

    Curator Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado pairs two agit-prop classics

  • Music

    April 24, 2008

    Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

    This Just In: Get Ready for iFest

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    Chico Hamilton

    Juniflip, Believe, 6th Ave. Romp, Heritage

  • Culture

    August 31, 2000

    King of Pain

    Dolan Smith's "Scar Show" catalogs a life of comic misfortune and tragedy

  • Music

    August 26, 1999

    The Real Diva

    Nancy Wilson returns from jazz-pop limbo

  • Music

    February 25, 1999

    Jazz for the Masses

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Zoot Me Up!

    Joe Coleman, tailor to Houston's zoot suit culture, knows one thing for certain: Sometimes, clothes do make the man.

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